Category: Gentoo
Fedora: Not the Best of Starts
Sadly, after all of my troubles with Gentoo, my switch to Fedora hasn't been easy so far. Currently, I am stuck, trying to get the Live CD to allow me to install to the hard drive. The problem isn't in the installation itself - its the fact that the Live...
The End of the War With Gentoo
Tonight, my war with Gentoo ended. Although it had proved a worthy opponent over the last few months, I finally had to destroy it, wiping it out in response to its most recent attack. Of late, Gentoo had been blockading me from my disks, preventing me from accessing any disk...
Fix Missing Dependencies in Gentoo with revdep-rebuild
This morning I updated my desktop. When I returned, I soon discovered that wmv files would no longer play in VLC or Mplayer. Apparently the file libx264.so.78 no longer existed. Thus began one of those searches that Gentoo sometimes subjects me to, a search to find out why something no...
Don't Autocheck Root
Last night I had one of those little crisises that computer users tend to run into. You know what I mean - when something breaks randomly and the computer decides that it will drop you into a repair shell and from the cryptic messages that it left during the boot...
DVD Drive Autoclose edev Bug
Since my switch to Gentoo, my DVD drive has decided that it really prefers to stay closed. In order to further its goals in this area, it was closing seconds after opening, making swapping out disks nigh impossible. After a substantial amount of work to make Google return a result...
Weird Ebuild Problem
Today I was battling with my system again, in my attempt to make my dvd drive automount. At one point, I needed to recompile my system, to allow a new use flag to be compiled into my system. Too bad I hit an error, specifically `ERROR: dev-python/libgnomecanvas-python-2.28.0 failed:`. This error...
Dealing alsa defaults and a second sound card on Gentoo
My motherboard has an onboard sound card using the AC97 chipset, which not only has crappy sound quality, but also has often proven to be rather unstable on my system. As a result, I ended up installing a (very) old Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card onto my system. Unfortunately alsa,...
Installing Adobe Flash on Gentoo
To successfully install Adobe Flash into Gentoo Linux I took the following steps. 1. Added the line `www-plugins/adobe-flash` to the file `/etc/portage/package.keywords` 2. Added the line `www-plugins/adobe-flash nsplugin` to the file `/etc/portage/package.use` 3. Added the line `www-plugins/adobe-flash AdobeFlash-10` to the file `/etc/portage/package.license` Steps 1 and 2 may not be necessary,...
Failing to get off Adobe Flash
Yesterday I finally tired of the horrible things that the flash plugin I was using did to my CPU from time to time. Seeing as I was using the adobe version, I thought it might be worth trying to install one of the open source alternatives. Most recently, I had...
My Linux Printing Struggle
I've been staving off doing it in the weeks since I installed Gentoo, but I finally was forced to configure my system to work with my printer. In a normal system, this might not leave an administrator filled with a feeling of dread, but I print over the network to...
64bit Amazon Mp3 Downloader Alternative
Despite my great appreciation for [Jamendo](/jamendo-site-free-and-legal-music.html), there is still bit of music I like that you can not get under a Creative Commons license. Usually when looking for this music, I turn to the Amazon mp3 store, which uses a proprietary downloader whenever you buy a whole album. Fortunately this...
So far in Gentoo - Part 2
Today marks my second day of setup on my new Gentoo desktop. Before any one begins to laugh at the time it has taken so far - I've only been spending free time on it, and during much of that I've been working on it through an ssh connection while...
So far in Gentoo - Part 1
With my old Ubuntu installation on my desktop beginning to show signs of implosion (probably a result of the server software that had been installed and then removed once i setup my real server) I felt like trying something new. I've managed to come to grips with Ubuntu over the...